Kaki King's new album Dreaming of Revenge is perhaps the best Indie composition to hit 2008. The record was released on March 11 th after a year long delay, and the wait was well worth it. Two of King's songs, "Frame" and "Doing the Wrong Thing" from her second album Legs to Make Us Longer have been featured in Into the Wild and were nominated for a Golden Globe.

In past records King has solely performed instrumental works, playing guitar, lap steel, drums and piano, vocals were much like filler - adding on to the instruments but not taking away from the guitar, the central point. In Dreaming of Revenge King attempts writing deeper lyrics, a smooth child-like voice melds perfectly with the various types of guitars making one wonder why King hadn't sung more in her pervious works. In heart wrenching tracks such as "2 O' Clock" and "Life Being What It Is" King says, "The words mean something now, they're actually telling stories." Before King hesitated to use vocals in her music because she didn't want to be labeled simply as female. In previous records one would have no clue whether they were listening to a man or woman. However, in Dreaming of Revenge King continues to embrace her own style just as she always has.

Kaki King is not your average guitarist, In 2006 Rolling Stone Magazine named her "Guitar God" making King the first woman ever to receive that honor from the publication. Regardless of her recent popularity King seems to creep in the shadows away from the limelight, keeping her music original and untouched by commercial industries.

In Dreaming of Revenge King taps on break up's and relationships in "Life Being What It Is" King sings, you put a note in my pocket/ said be good to yourself/ and that was all. Simple lyrics such as this, socks a powerful punch mixed with weeping guitars and sharp thumping drum beats. In other non-lyrical songs such as 'Montreal' and 'The Sad American' King plucks effortlessly away, a sound of soothing dark lullabies with eccentric transitions.

The 28-year-old King is perhaps an outsider of Indie rock, the band geek with a hidden sense of humor. The newly released video "Pull Me Out Alive" is comprised of over 5,000 still shots with all light trails created by hand. This whimsical portrayal of a grungy New York night features Sara Quin (Tegan and Sara) and Hesta Prynn (Northern State) two bands in which King has contributed to. "Pull Me Out Alive" has been featured recently on YouTube.

Dreaming of Revenge has the same basic bare bones of her previous works, but this time there seems to be a bit more pop which to some Kaki King fans is no great achievement. I would have to disagree; I think King's album is astonishingly perfect and a landmark in the music world. I think my generation seeks the fresh opposite of the 90's manufactured pop we grew up on, and KakiKing delivers just that, a refreshing breath of sheer talent.

It would be blasphemous to not listen to Kaki King, as she is one of the leading guitar forces of our time. This may sound very LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow of me but, listen to Kaki King'sDreaming of Revenge...you don't have to take my word for it.